Series 1 |
Personal - Biographical |
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Lists, bibliographies, certificates, correspondence, diary notes, Christmas cards, photographs, press cuttings, tearsheets, publications, telegrams, reports, talks. Records from Accession ASAP 27/3/88 arranged into sections, using the following (Title) Qualifiers: Chronological Subject Files; Chronological Letter Files; Selected Reprints. Further sections include: Honours and Awards; Biography; Congratulations; Public Relations.
Date Range: 1890 - 1999
Quantity: 179.5 cm, 135 items
Provenance: Phillip Garth Law
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Series 2 |
Voyages Diaries |
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Diaries, log books, lists, notes, maps, correspondence, speech notes, memoranda, draft manuscripts, photographs, invitations, press cuttings, telegrams, itineraries. Twenty one numbered personal diaries of Antarctic voyages and Antarctic Division (Department of External Affairs), some marked "Personal" and/or "Confidential". Diaries labelled with P.G. Law's numbering. Also covers voyage to South Africa and establishment and usage of Mount Hotham Cosmic Ray Station (1947-53). This series is held by P.G. Law.
Date Range: 1947 - 1966
Quantity: 23.2 cm, 21 items
Provenance: Phillip Garth Law
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Series 3 |
Small Diaries and Pocket Diaries - Overseas Trips |
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Diaries, notes, addresses, lecture notes, radio broadcasts, itineraries, draft manuscripts, lists, telegrams, correspondence, press cuttings, from overseas trip, including Cape Town, London, Norway, Japan, Europe, Americas, New Zealand, USSR, Chile, Hong Kong, Honolulu, Quebec and Israel. Also includes some diaries from war trip to New Guinea (1944) and Antarctic trips, and office diaries (VIC). Records from Accession ASAP 27/3/88 arranged into sections, using the following (Title) Qualifiers: Numbered Travel Diaries; Un-numbered Diaries and Diary Notes; Pocket Diaries; Office and Appointment Diaries. Some items in this series are held by P.G. Law.
Date Range: 1944 - 1998
Quantity: 63.4 cm, 57 items
Provenance: Phillip Garth Law
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Series 4 |
Lectures, Talks and Broadcasts |
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Manuscripts, typescripts, notes, publications, draft and final versions, press cuttings, correspondence, telegrams, press releases. Records from Accession ASAP 27/3/88 arranged into sections, using the following (Title) Qualifiers: Lectures on Antarctica; Lectures on Education of Technologists and Victoria Institute of Colleges; Graduation Addresses, Minor Speeches and Short Talks; Broadcasts; Lectures and Talks on Leadership and Antarctic Psychology (with Working Papers). Some items in this series are held by P.G. Law.
Date Range: 1940 - 1998
Quantity: 48.1 cm, 48 items
Provenance: Phillip Garth Law
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Series 5 |
Lectures and Talks - Indexed Sets |
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Numbered and comprehensively indexed lectures and talks, mostly early and final draft typescripts, with copies, including indexes, notes, manuscripts. Records from Accession ASAP 27/3/88 arranged into sections, using the following (Title) Qualifiers: General Lectures and Talks; Lectures on Tertiary Education and the Victoria Institute of Colleges. The section Lectures on Tertiary Education and VIC (and Articles for Publication) consists mostly of copies and typescripts of lectures listed in series 4, or in section General Talks and Lectures of this series. Only selected items are listed. For details consult index in item 5/016.
Date Range: 1965 - 1984
Quantity: 48 cm, 23 items
Provenance: Phillip Garth Law
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Series 6 |
Manuscripts for Books and Articles |
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Draft typescripts and manuscripts for articles and other publications, not including lectures later published, including: manuscripts, typescripts, notes, lists, annotated photocopies, press cuttings, correspondence. Some records arranged into sections, using the following (Title) Qualifiers: Publications - Antarctic Odyssey; Publications - Wyatt Earp; Publications - You Have to be Lucky.
Date Range: 1940 - 1999
Quantity: 77.6 cm, 45 items
Provenance: Phillip Garth Law
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Series 7 |
Antarctic Correspondence - Subject Files |
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Notes, reports, meteorological records, navigational records, correspondence, memoranda, manuscripts, typescripts, lists, submissions, minutes, meeting papers, publications. Records from Accession ASAP 27/3/88 arranged into sections, using the following (Title) Qualifiers: ANARE and Department of External Affairs (Antarctic Division); Antarctic Names Committees; Australian National Committee for Antarctic Research (ANCAR); Australian Academy of Science, General and other committees; Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR); Miscellaneous Antarctic Subjects.
Date Range: 1940 - 1999
Quantity: 148.3 cm, 113 items
Provenance: Phillip Garth Law
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Series 8 |
General Correspondence - Subject Files |
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Minutes, notes, submissions, reports, correspondence, memoranda, press releases, press cuttings, publications, addresses, circulars, lists. Records from Accession ASAP 27/3/88 arranged into sections, using the following (Title) Qualifiers: Victoria Institute of Colleges (VIC); Universities; Education Subject Files; Australasian Schools Exploring Society (ASES) - Australian and New Zealand Scientific Exploration Society (ANZSES); Science and Technology Council, Australian Academy of Technological Sciences; Assorted Alphabetical Correspondence - Subject Files.
Date Range: 1940 - 1998
Quantity: 124.6 cm, 80 items
Provenance: Phillip Garth Law
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Series 9 |
Photographs - Antarctic and ANARE |
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Black and white photographs taken by P.G. Law, ANARE photographs, press photographs, photo card letters, colour photographs, photograph albums, of Antarctic subjects, SCAR meetings and ANARE club functions. This series is held by P.G. Law.
Date Range: 1940 - 1998
Quantity: 30 items
Provenance: Phillip Garth Law
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Series 10 |
Photographs - General and Law Family |
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Black and white, and colour photographs, colour transparencies, press cuttings, tear sheets, negative film, glass negatives, photo post-cards, notes on general and family subjects, including early family photos, team, sport and ski trip photos, and photos from 1944 New Guinea trip. This series is held by P.G. Law.
Date Range: 1870 - 1998
Quantity: 17 items
Provenance: Phillip Garth Law
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Series 11 |
Photographs - Institutional |
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Photos from VIC, SCAR and other organisations, and assorted functions, including the Royal Society of Victoria's symposium honouring P.G. Law on his 80th birthday (1992). Contains prints, negatives, test sheets. This series is held by P.G. Law.
Date Range: 1941 - 1998
Quantity: 5 items
Provenance: Phillip Garth Law
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Series 12 |
Scrap Books and Scrap Book Material |
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Large bound scrap books on Antarctica, containing press cuttings, autographs, telegrams, cables, correspondence, photographs, notices, invitations, tearsheets, memorabilia, conference programmes. Loose news clippings (for future scrap books, not made) on various Antarctic and non-Antarctic subject matter, including: the Scouts, trip to South America, La Trobe University development and student violence, establishment of a fourth university, review of administration at University of Melbourne, the VIC and education generally.
Date Range: 1942 - 1998
Quantity: 42.1 cm, 28 items
Provenance: Phillip Garth Law
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Series 13 |
Audio Tapes |
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Magnetic audio-cassettes and reel-to-reel tapes. Records from Accession ASAP 27/3/88 arranged into sections, using the following (Title) Qualifiers: Antarctica; Victoria Institute of Colleges; General.
Date Range: 1950 - 1998
Quantity: 111 cm, 62 items
Provenance: Phillip Garth Law
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Series 14 |
Teaching Notebooks, Lecture Notes and Theses |
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Notebooks and handwritten lecture notes taken by P.G. Law as a student at the University of Melbourne, and prepared by P.G. Law for teaching classes at Clunes Higher Elementary School (Pure Maths), Melbourne High School (Physics and Maths II), Melbourne Teachers' College Carlton (Pure Maths), and the University of Melbourne (Natural Philosophy Part I, II, III and Physics Part I, II). Also contains typescript and copies of Practical Report and typescript "Cosmic Rays" thesis submitted for the degree of Master of Science by P.G. Law, September 1940, and notes of experiments at Natural Philosophy Laboratory, University of Melbourne and tropic proofing experiments in New Guinea, 1944.
Date Range: 1932 - 1948
Quantity: 53.1 cm, 46 items
Provenance: Phillip Garth Law
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Series 15 |
Video Tapes |
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16 mm sound/colour film, PAL and VHS format video tapes, of television interviews with P.G. Law, Antarctic subjects, biography book launch, investiture at Buckingham Palace, and series of Film Australia taped interviews with P.G. Law for Australian Biography II (1993). This series is held by P.G. Law.
Date Range: 1957 - 1998
Quantity: 120.4 cm, 30 items
Provenance: Phillip Garth Law
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Series 16 |
Antarctic and ANARE Miscellany |
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Miscellaneous items collected and received by P.G. Law relating to Antarctica, including some correspondence, photographs, designs for ANARE logo pennant and sleeve patch specifications, publications on Antarctica (not by P.G. Law), copies of extracts from P.G. Law's diaries and reports, maps, list of ANARE publications (1961), and interviews.
Date Range: 1948 - 1989
Quantity: 23.1 cm, 18 items
Provenance: Phillip Garth Law
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Series 17 |
Publications on Antarctica and Education by (and collected by) P.G. Law |
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Magazines, journals, photocopies, news clippings and reprints of articles by P.G. Law on Antarctica, adventure and exploration, and vice president's reports (VIC). Other publications collected by P.G. Law, on areas on interest including academic papers, education, science, conservation, ANZSES and SCAR. Some records arranged into sections, using the following (Title) Qualifiers: General Papers on Academic Subjects; Victoria Institute of Colleges (VIC); Australian and New Zealand Scientific Exploration Society (ANZSES); Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR).
Date Range: 1913 - 1997
Quantity: 135 cm, 19 items
Provenance: Phillip Garth Law
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Series 18 |
Nel Law |
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Correspondence (from P.G. Law to Nel, and condolences to P.G. Law), news clippings, handwritten notes, and diaries and notebooks on, about and by Nel Law, including copies of Department of External Affairs documents about Nel Law's visit to Antarctica in 1961; poems by Nel Law, artworks, and photographs. This series is held by P.G. Law.
Date Range: 1936 - 1994
Quantity: 66.8 cm, 14 items
Provenance: Phillip Garth Law
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Series 19 |
Field Notes Made During Landings and Aircraft Flights |
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Field notebooks of observations made in Antarctica by P.G. Law (and others) on landings and filghts, later rewritten into diaries.
Date Range: 1954 - 1959
Quantity: 6.3 cm, 7 items
Provenance: Phillip Garth Law
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Series 20 |
Biography - Kathleen Ralston |
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Copies of Department of External Affairs documents (Antarctic subject matter) used by Kathleen Ralston in preparation of the biography (Phillip Law: The Antarctic Exploration Years 1954-66, AusInfo, 1998), usually with annotations by P.G. Law. Contains two files relating to the writing and publication of two volumes of P.G. Law's biography, including correspondence, royalty statements, letters of intent, copies of reviews, news clippings, handwritten notes, publicity, distribution lists. Some items in this series are held by P.G. Law.
Date Range: 1946 - 1998
Quantity: 14.7 cm, 8 items
Provenance: Phillip Garth Law
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Series 21 |
Cosmic Ray Records and Analyses, HMAS Wyatt Earp and MV Duntroon |
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Cosmic ray recordings made by P.G. Law during 1947-1948 on voyages on HMAS Wyatt Earp and MV Duntroon, including draft papers and reports, cosmic ray recordings, analyses and correspondence.
Date Range: 1947 - 1948
Quantity: 15.2 cm, 20 items
Provenance: Phillip Garth Law
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